Iceberg Falls
I was going to work on the new window, but then decided I could do that at any time, but if I wanted to go see the waterfall, of course with my hip waders on, I should go before I ran out of afternoon!
So I did. It was a great idea. It was sunny, so I went in Pond Lane Peninsula and then across the underwater clothwalk to Iceberg Pond. I discovered a beaver had taken down a tree. Eeek. Those are the trees that I want to have growing for hanging hammocks!
I want the water in the pond to be higher, so we can sit by the water and enjoy it instead of seeing it at the bottom of the bowl, or something like that. So I started a dam in the mouth where the water heads off to create the upper stream and to turn the marsh woods into the fen that it is.
I found some fallen or felled sticks and logs and dragged or carried them over to the outlet. I lined them up with the current, so that the sticks lay from the downhill spot where they would float to, and the other end in the dam spot. I did this with all of the logs, trying to imitate the way beavers build their dams.
I ran out of logs and stamina. I climbed up alongside Iceberg Falls, filming them and enjoying the sound. I pulled clumps of leaves and sticks out of the way. I should toss them down so I can use them to create the dam I need to build!
I spent a couple of hours at the pond, playing in the dam, with the falls and then lying in the hammock to watch the falls, feeling grateful to have this on our own property. I am so blessed! I'm so glad we bought it when we did, paid if off and can live here now! Retirement rocks!
Because the falls are now going completely into the pond, the meadow is not getting any further underwater, in fact it is less so than it was yesterday! How cool!
So I did. It was a great idea. It was sunny, so I went in Pond Lane Peninsula and then across the underwater clothwalk to Iceberg Pond. I discovered a beaver had taken down a tree. Eeek. Those are the trees that I want to have growing for hanging hammocks!
I want the water in the pond to be higher, so we can sit by the water and enjoy it instead of seeing it at the bottom of the bowl, or something like that. So I started a dam in the mouth where the water heads off to create the upper stream and to turn the marsh woods into the fen that it is.
I found some fallen or felled sticks and logs and dragged or carried them over to the outlet. I lined them up with the current, so that the sticks lay from the downhill spot where they would float to, and the other end in the dam spot. I did this with all of the logs, trying to imitate the way beavers build their dams.
I ran out of logs and stamina. I climbed up alongside Iceberg Falls, filming them and enjoying the sound. I pulled clumps of leaves and sticks out of the way. I should toss them down so I can use them to create the dam I need to build!
I spent a couple of hours at the pond, playing in the dam, with the falls and then lying in the hammock to watch the falls, feeling grateful to have this on our own property. I am so blessed! I'm so glad we bought it when we did, paid if off and can live here now! Retirement rocks!
Because the falls are now going completely into the pond, the meadow is not getting any further underwater, in fact it is less so than it was yesterday! How cool!